
Brandon Allbery
On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Kosyrev Serge <_deepfire@feelingofgreen.ru> wrote:
I don't mean to come across argumentative -- rather I merely want to point out, that the way of accomplishing it in a non-breaking way was proposed in this thread: an extra keyword + a pragma to guard against name clashes.
Not worth the fact that I now have to look for two effectively incompatible languages both calling themselves Haskell.
Do you mean that adding a new keyword to the language, guarded by a language extension, really deserves this strong wording -- "effectively incompatible"? What about the precedents? - TransformListComp: group, by, using - RecursiveDo: mdo, rec Then, I guess there was a number of keywords introduced by Haskell 2010. -- respectfully, Косырев Серёга -- “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche